Banca de DEFESA: MANOELA CRISTINA CORREIA CARVALHO DA SILVA
Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.DISCENTE : MANOELA CRISTINA CORREIA CARVALHO DA SILVA
DATA : 15/02/2019
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala 07 - Farmárcia - 2ºandar
TÍTULO:
BEYOND THE VISIBLE:
PRINCIPLES FOR A LESS VISOCENTAL AUDIODESCRIPTION
PALAVRAS-CHAVES:
Audiovisual Translation. Accessibility. Audio description. Visual impairment. Visual centrism. Special Needs Education.
PÁGINAS: 232
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
ESPECIALIDADE: Educação Especial
RESUMO:
Audio description (AD) is a translation mode that aims at making key information transmitted in a visual way accessible. Its primary audience consists of blind and low vision people for whom the resource is not only a source of information but also of leisure. AD arrived in Brazil almost two decades ago. Over the past years, the activity has left the shadows and has gained the status of an official occupation, being included in the Brazilian Classification of Professions (Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações - CBO). As a result, the quality of the descriptions being offered and their adequacy to the target audience have become issues of extreme relevance, leading researchers to rethink certain parameters that have been guiding the area. One of these points to be reviewed is the visual centrism that still permeates the activity. ADs created under a visual-centric logic relegate the specificities of their primary target audience to the background, and seek as their ultimate goal to "return vision" to visually impaired people, that is, to grant these people a perception of imagery texts that is "equivalent" to that of the sighted. The adoption of this perspective is counterproductive not only because it jeopardizes the quality of the scripts, but also because it rescues long-overdue concepts, such as the medical model of disability and the search for equivalence in translation. The present thesis, therefore, is a work that addresses these issues. Initially, a bibliographic research, involving the fields of Translation Studies, Disability Studies, Neuroscience, and historical and cultural investigations on human perception, was conducted so that the phenomena of vision, visual impairment, and visual centrism could be better understood. Next, Narrative Studies were used so that two autobiographies written by blind authors, Touching the Rock by John Hull and Out of Darkness: A Memoir by Zoltan Torey, could be analyzed to help gain a better understanding of the target audience of AD, and help find clues on how to write scripts that are less visual-centric and closer to the audience’s needs and preferences. The thematic analysis of the narratives showed, among other aspects, the importance of the correct ordering and systematization of the information in a script, the great relevance of the soundtrack of audio described productions, and the benefit of the association of AD with multisensory experiences. Suggestions as to how these and the other recommendations derived from the analysis of the autobiographical accounts could be applied in practice were also made. Finally, all these considerations were condensed in the form of principles that synthesize the attitudes necessary to make AD less visual-centric and more effective. The conclusions of this study give rise to reflections about the nature and role of AD, and indicate the need for a more critical and ethical attitude by the professionals of the area. Visual impaired people are entitled to their own interpretation of audio described images. The true goal of AD can only be achieved when visual centrism is replaced by an attitude that truly promotes the respect and support needed by those with special needs.
MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1524738 - ALESSANDRA SANTANA SOARES E BARROS
Interno - 1166900 - MARIA CECILIA DE PAULA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - FELIPE LEÃO MIANES
Externo à Instituição - SANDRA REGINA ROSA FARIAS
Externo à Instituição - VERA LÚCIA SANTIAGO ARAÚJO